Expedited troubleshooting

Identify and resolve issues in your message queue much faster with MainView for MQ. From a single, user-friendly interface, you’ll be able to spot potential problems, set up automated actions to resolve them, and issue MQ commands to make sure they don’t happen again.

Detailed data collection

Monitor every aspect of your queue, by collecting and storing data on every individual MQ call as it occurs.

Sophisticated automation

Correct for errors and failures with automated actions that you can build via the user-friendly rules panel—no coding required.

Direct message management

Edit, copy, move, and otherwise manage any message in any queue, directly from the MainView interface.

Shared MQ call data

Use the API Trace Facility feature to make data on individual MQ calls available for use with other applications.

Queue manager optimization

Make sure you’re getting the most out of your queue manager with the Tuning Wizard feature, which guides users through key metrics.

Central, web-based interface

Enjoy the convenience of a user-friendly, web-based GUI that consolidates information from all of the MainView products you run.

Dynamic thresholds

Use the Threshold Advisor feature to set intelligent, dynamic thresholds based on real-time data and business cycles.

Historical reporting & analysis

Take advantage of sophisticated data views to compare historical and current data or build analytical reports.

Products included in this solution

BMC MainView for MQ ensures the health and availability of your IBM MQ environment. From a single console, this product offers complete control over MQ configuration, administration, performance monitoring, and automation. You’ll enjoy faster troubleshooting, with the ability to retrieve and view the status of individual MQ calls. Resource costs can be reduced with the ability to offload eligible processing to zIIP specialty engines. MainView for MQ includes features for editing page set usage for queues, optimizing the performance of the queue manager, and making MQ call information available to other programs.

BMC MainView AutoOPERATOR for MQ provides a powerful automation solution for correcting mainframe-based IBM MQ errors and failures that can affect your queue managers, queues, channels, name lists, and clusters. MainView AutoOPERATOR for MQ can automatically take recovery or notification actions when any MainView monitor product raises an alarm. With an intuitive rule-building interface, you’ll be able to create powerful automation without the need for REXX coding. Replacing repetitive, error-prone manual interventions with automated ones will help you avoid costly performance interruptions.